Easy Chocolate Easter Nest Recipe {No Bake Treats}
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This is such a super cute Easter nest recipe to make with your kids! With just 5 simple ingredients, this treat is simple and fun, and has a great chocolate peanut butter taste.
Plus, who can ever resist those Mini Cadbury Eggs (I sure can’t – they’re my favorite Easter candy!). You’ll have them ready to go in 35 minutes or less!
Easter Nest Recipe
Whether you’re looking for a cute dessert for a family Easter gathering, or just an afternoon activity with the kids, these little nests are sure to be a hit.
Cadbury Mini Chocolate Eggs are my choice for this perfect, easy Easter dessert, but you could also use another option like Whoppers Robin Eggs or even jelly beans.
Symbolism of the Easter Egg
In pagan cultures, eggs were a symbol of fertility and rebirth. However, for Christians, Easter eggs have taken on a variety of symbols and representations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Good Housekeeping states that early Christian missionaries would dye eggs with colors that had different meanings to the church, also sometimes adding pictures or messages to them.
If you are making these treats with your kids, you could talk about some of the different color meanings as you place the eggs on the nests.
What You’ll Need
This Easter nest recipe will take you about 20 minutes for prep time, and an additional 15 minutes for the Easter nests to set. It yields about 10 treats if you follow the easy recipe below.
Here’s what you’ll need to gather before you begin:
- 2 ½ cups shredded Wheat cereal
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate or milk chocolate chips
- ½ cup coconut shavings
- Green food dye
- Mini Cadbury Eggs
You’ll also need a large bowl for melting and mixing, a cupcake pan and cupcake liners.
Making This Perfect Easter Treat
First, you’ll melt the peanut butter and semi sweet chocolate in a mixing bowl in the microwave at 30 second intervals.
Once the melted chocolate mixture is smooth, pour the shredded wheat cereal into the bowl and fold together until completely coated.
Fill your cupcake pan with cupcake liners, then place a heaping tablespoon of the chocolate wheat mixture into each cupcake liner.
Press the mixture into the liners with the back of a teaspoon and create a well in the middle of each wheat mixture. This will emulate an eggs nest and create space for the Cadbury Mini Eggs later.
Place these in the freezer for 15 minutes.
While they’re hardening, put some green food dye in a plastic bag and add the shredded coconut. Seal the bag shut and mix with your hands until all of the coconut pieces are green.
Once the chocolate nests have hardened, remove them from the cupcake liners.
Sprinkle a little bit of the green coconut into each chocolate nest, then place 3 Cadbury eggs on top of each nest to finish. Voila!
Store in an airtight container at room temperature until you’re ready to serve.
Enjoy These Easter Treats
This is such a fun recipe to make, and everyone at your Easter get-together is sure to love them. It will become one of your favorite recipes for this time of year!
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Easter Egg Nests
A super cute Easter treat to make with kids. With only 5 ingredients, this dessert is simple and fun!
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups shredded Wheat cereal
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate
- ½ cup coconut Shavings
- Green food dye
- Mini Cadbury Eggs
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, melt the peanut butter and semi sweet chocolate in the microwave together at 30 second intervals until the mixture has become smooth.
- Pour the shredded wheat cereal into the chocolate mixture and fold together until completely coated.
- Take your cupcake pan and fill with cupcake liners.
- Place a heaping tablespoon full of the chocolate wheat mixture into each cupcake liner.
- Press the mixture into the liners with the spoon and create a well in the middle of each wheat mixture to emulate an eggs nest and create space for the eggs later.
- Place these in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- While those are hardening, place some green food dye in a plastic bag and add the shredded coconut. Seal shut and mix with your hands until all of the coconut pieces are green.
- Once the chocolate nests have hardened you can remove them from the cupcake liners.
- Sprinkle a little of the green coconut into each chocolate next and then place 3 Cadbury eggs on top of each to finish.
- Enjoy!
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 262Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 82mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 4gSugar: 17gProtein: 5g
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